Headbangers Book Club: Pamela Des Barres’ I’m with the Band (Part 1)
This month's Headbangers Book Club Official Selection is a special one, as it's the first book we've read that's not a total sausage party! Pamela Des Barres may not have...
Podcast: Dystopian Book Club vs. Mark Paytress’ Bolan: The Rise and Fall of a 20th Century Superstar
September is kind of our unofficial Marc Bolan month at Dystopian Dance Party; so for this installment of our Dystopian Book Club podcast series, we thought we'd read the excellent...
Dystopian Listening Party Podcast: Memorial Day, 2016-2017
Well, here we are: for the second consecutive year, we're turning Memorial Day weekend into a time of remembrance for the many great artists we lost since last May. But because this...
Dystopian Book Club Podcast: Paul Stanley’s Face the Music
The last installment of our Dystopian Book Club miniseries on the memoirs of KISS is finally here, and we're going out in a big way. Paul Stanley’s Face the Music: A...
From the Vault: Wanda Jackson Review and Interview, 2006
Editor's Note: In January of 2006, I had the opportunity to interview Wanda Jackson: an opportunity I naturally jumped at, as I had coincidentally just started getting into her music. At the...
Women’s History Month: Wanda Jackson’s “Hard Headed Woman”
Wanda Lavonne Jackson was not the first woman to sing rock and roll music; but she very likely was the first white woman to release a rock and roll single, and that...